Removable runner for carriage or wagon wheels.



- PATENTED NOV. 29, 1904. G. H. GARRISON 6; R. & J. VAN DER WEIT. REMOVABLE RUNNER FOR CARRIAGE OR WAGON WHEELS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26. 1904v N0 MODEL.

N W W INVENTORS, W770, @mb WM W No. 776,462 Patented November 29, 1904.

NIE Tarps CHARLES H. GARRISON, RICHARD VAN DER VVEIT, AND JAMES VAN DER VVEIT, OF DUNDEE LAKE, NEW JERSEY.

REMOVABLE RUNNER FOR CAPFHAGE OR WAGON WHEELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,462, dated November 29, 1904:.

A li ti fil d February 26, 1904:. Serial No. 195,422. (No model.)

T l w7wm it y COW/07%! l each side of the runner a near the middle Be it known that we, CHARLES H. GARRISON thereof and form therewith a socket or rest and RICHARD VAN DER WEI'I, citizens of the for the wheel (2. 71 it are other lugs having United States, and J AMES VAN DER VEIT, a rearward]y-inclined recesses i and beingpref- 5 subject of the Queen of the Netherlands, reerably spaced about the same as the lugs r siding in Dundee Lake, in the county of Ber- The recesses i receive the trunnions 7' of a gen and State of New Jersey, have invented rear stop 7;, which is thus pivoted in the lugs. certain new and useful Improvements in Re- Its free end Z may be arc-shaped, so as to thus movable Sleigh Runners for Carriage or conform to the periphery of the wheel. The

10 Wagon Wheels; and we do hereby declare the arrangement is such that the stop K: may be following to be a full, clear, and exact deremoved from the runner, and since the lugs scription of the invention, such as will enable it are spaced greater than the width of the others skilled in the art to which it appertains tread of the wheel the parts can be either atto make and use the same, reference being had tached or detached from the wheel by simply I 5 to the accompanying drawings, and to characsliding the runner in or out from under the ters of reference marked thereon, which form a wheel. part of this specification. m designates U-shaped clips adapted to se- This invention relates to removable sleighcure the wheel and each stop together. Each runners for wheeled vehicles; and it consists of these clips has a removable pin or, which is 20 in certain improvements in devices of this introduced through holesoin the arms 1) of the nature having principally in view to simplify clip after the clip has been attached, as shown and cheapen the construction, accommodate in Fig. 3. A cotter-pin q may be provided to 7 wheels of varying diameters, and provide for keep the pin 71. at this time in place. braking and chocking on grades. 9* is a cam having a handle .9 and arranged 25 Our invention will be found fully illuson a pivot t, disposed at the end of the clip retrated in the accompanying drawings, wheremote from pin a. WVhen the clip has been atin tached, the cam is turned into the position Figure 1 shows the device in position on one shown in Fig. 3, so that the stop and the felly 0f the front wheels of a vehicle. Fig. 2 is a of the wheel are securely clamped together 0 top plan view of the device with the rear stop thereby.

and the attached chockingpiece removed. As a brake or drag we provide a spur a, piv- Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailview taken as a secoted at o in the upright o and adapted to be tion through the parts shown in Fig. 1 and just connected by a pitman 20 with an operatingabove one of the clamps therein shown, and lever :11.

3 5 Fig. 4: is a detail view of the runner of the The rear stop In may have pivoted thereto at device. its free end a chock 9 which when in use In said drawings, ais the runner, the same stands in the dotted-line position shown in 8 5 being turned up at the front end, as at b, and Fig. 1 and when out of use may be held up formed with a preferably integral upright 0, against the periphery of the wheel by a strap 4 having an arc-shaped portion (Z, designed to It will be understood that one or more of conform approximately to the periphery of the set of runners for a vehicle may have the the wheel 0. The turned-up portion 7) of the braking and checking devices, but not neces- 9 runner and the upper extremity of the upsarily all of them. right 0 are secured together, as by a riveted The runner a is preferably made long 45 eyelet-pin f, and thus not only brace each enough so that under ordinary conditions it other, but together constitute the front stop will not trip -z' a, turn up at its rear end of the runner. when meeting with some obstacle in the road;

g g are lugs which project upwardly from but in order to insure against this happening under any condition a chain 1 may be provided to connect the eyelet-pin f with some part of the vehicle, as the shaft 2.

The runner a is preferably provided with a removable shoe 3, which may be replaced by a new one when worn out.

Having thus fully described our invention, What We claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a runner having a wheel-stop at each end thereof, one of which is pivotally mounted, spaced lugs forming the mountings for the pivoted stop, and means for securing each stop to the wheel, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a runner, wheel-stops disposed one at each end of said runner, a U- shaped clip embracing a portion of each wheelstop, a pin traversing the opening in each clip which receives the wheel-stop, and a cam car- CHARLES H. GARRISON. RICHARD VAN DER WEIT. JAMES VAN DER WEIT.

Witnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, JOHN W. STEWARD. 

